making my own tabacco...

bscofield · Post by **bscofield** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 1:30 pm

I go to a place here in St. Louis, MO where they have a guy that does about 25-30 custom blends. That's about all I ever enjoy anymore are the custom blends. Which leads me to think about making my own tobacco blends. The place that does this in St. Louis isn't very big so I wouldn't think that it's an incredibly expensive venture... Anyone have any advice on this? Products, blend *recipe's*, buying raw tobacco, etc?

Post by **Tyler** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 5:14 pm

This is an area that I have not done any research. I hope someone can weigh in that has.

What I do know is that Cornell and Deihl (sp?) has blending components (i.e. straight latakia, straight perique, burley, virginias, etc.) which seems to me like a good way to start.

Tyler

Post by **KurtHuhn** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 3:00 pm

Since Cornell and Diehl's finished products are so good, I wouldn't hesitate a moment to buy their blending tobaccos in bulk. One of the things that I *love* about their tobaccos is that they don't come goopy and moist. I like my tobacco on the dry side, and some tobaccos are just way to wet for my liking - McLelland's (sp?) always is too moist for me, and is difficult to dry out enough to smoke.

Jared · Post by **Jared** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 4:49 pm

A tad bit late for this discussion, but I was just looking at this link today:

http://www.tobaccoblending.com/

Seems to have most/all the information you would need to blend your own tobacco.

Jared

Post by **Tyler** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 10:29 pm

Jared,

Welcome to the forum!

Thanks for the link.

Tyler

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 8:05 am

The smoke shop I go to here in Columbus used to have a "Blending Bar." All sorts of blending tobaccos. You'd just grab some of this and that, throw it together on the scale and were off and running. Too much fun. I never managed to let anything I blended to marry well enough. Always ended up smoking it right away.